Pitbull Quotes

“I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.”

— Pitbull

“I work hard. But I play hard, too.”

— Pitbull

“I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.”

— Pitbull

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

— Pitbull

My owner is life and that's what I fight for.

— Pitbull

“I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.”

— Pitbull

“I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.”

— Pitbull

“Music is my hustle.”

— Pitbull

“In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.”

— Pitbull

“I'm in the major league now.”

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“If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.”

— Pitbull

“I look at this game from a different perspective.”

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“The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there's a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the same. But they can't say it.”

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“I like to keep my money at the end of the day.”

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“With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.”

— Pitbull

You can't get much whiter than me.

— Pitbull

“One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.”

— Pitbull

“Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.”

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“As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.”

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“I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.”

— Pitbull

“I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.”

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I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

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“Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.”

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I make music with no boundaries.

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“It's all about music, because music is basically what's ... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.”

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“I'm here to entertain.”

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“I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.”

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This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

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My kids can't eat awards.

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“Look, Pitbull is a product.”

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“Music to me is something I did as a hobby.”

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“When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.”

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Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.

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“Life is to live it, not to let it live you.”

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“Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.”

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This is the truth: I'm into sales. I love deals. I'm definitely a sucker for steals.

— Pitbull

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.

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“Now look at the crowd. We've got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos-and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!”

— Pitbull

“I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'”

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I'm sharp. What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

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“Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.”

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“There's always something going on, and people need that 45-minute-to-an-hour-and-15-minute break, where they just escape and not worry about bills, health care and God knows what. That, to me, is when you're making great music: when people can just forget about what's going on.”

— Pitbull

“I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."”

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Punish the deed, not the breed.

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“Show the World where you're from, show the World we are one ...”

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“I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic.”

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“Simplicity is the key to success.”

— Pitbull